Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 63 83
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,930 1,932 2,772
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 3.93% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 4.36% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 965 1,994
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,700 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,721 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 1,694 £75,000 +3.45% 657
UK excluding London -44 1,034 £65,000 -7.14% 367
Work from Home -20 880 £65,000 -7.14% 311
London -8 754 £85,000 +3.03% 378
North of England -35 369 £70,000 -1.40% 114
South East -5 273 £65,000 -7.14% 121
North West -45 202 £75,000 +8.70% 61
South West -41 116 £55,000 -19.74% 34
Midlands -60 97 £67,500 +1.89% 50
North East +23 88 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Yorkshire -25 79 £60,000 -16.66% 34
West Midlands -33 70 £80,000 +14.29% 32
Wales -19 54 £70,000 +34.62% 13
Northern Ireland -22 51 £72,500 +45.00% 18
East of England -16 45 £60,100 -3.84% 9
Scotland -62 31 £60,000 -23.87% 12
East Midlands -54 26 £64,000 +6.67% 18
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (1.71%) Confluence
2 23 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.83%) CMS
3 16 (0.83%) IIS
4 13 (0.67%) Apache
5 9 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.47%) Camunda
6 8 (0.41%) JBoss
6 8 (0.41%) WordPress
7 7 (0.36%) nginx
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.26%) Drupal
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.16%) Kentico
10 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.10%) Shopify
7 1 (0.052%) Eikon
7 1 (0.052%) RMDS
7 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (51.97%) AWS
2 830 (43.01%) Azure
3 333 (17.25%) GCP
4 265 (13.73%) Serverless
5 234 (12.12%) GitHub
6 186 (9.64%) SaaS
7 166 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.54%) Amazon S3
11 99 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 97 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 90 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 79 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
17 64 (3.32%) Azure AKS
18 63 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
19 53 (2.75%) PaaS
20 47 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.32%) Broadband
2 24 (1.24%) Network Security
3 15 (0.78%) MQTT
4 13 (0.67%) DMARC
5 11 (0.57%) DNS
6 8 (0.41%) AMQP
6 8 (0.41%) Firewall
6 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 8 (0.41%) VPN
7 7 (0.36%) DHCP
7 7 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.31%) RFID
8 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) HTTP
10 4 (0.21%) LTE
11 3 (0.16%) Modbus
12 1 (0.052%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.052%) PSTN
12 1 (0.052%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (15.65%) MongoDB
2 219 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (10.41%) NoSQL
4 167 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.24%) Elasticsearch
6 123 (6.37%) MySQL
7 103 (5.34%) SQL Server
8 89 (4.61%) Relational Database
9 64 (3.32%) Redis
10 50 (2.59%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.55%) Big Data
13 22 (1.14%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.62%) Db2
15 12 (0.62%) DTS
16 11 (0.57%) Pinecone
17 10 (0.52%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 232 (12.02%) Git
2 187 (9.69%) GitLab
3 157 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.11%) TeamCity
5 58 (3.01%) JIRA
6 53 (2.75%) JUnit
7 43 (2.23%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.66%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.66%) Mockito
9 31 (1.61%) Claude Code
10 25 (1.30%) Maven
11 23 (1.19%) CircleCI
12 21 (1.09%) Selenium
13 19 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.93%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.67%) Vite
16 12 (0.62%) JMeter
16 12 (0.62%) Postman
16 12 (0.62%) Spock
17 11 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 458 (23.73%) Finance
2 341 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 194 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 161 (8.34%) Banking
5 120 (6.22%) Retail
6 116 (6.01%) Law
7 110 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (3.47%) Legal
10 60 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.64%) Back Office
12 35 (1.81%) Marketing
13 29 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.45%) Legal Technology
15 22 (1.14%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.04%) Advertising
18 18 (0.93%) Games
19 16 (0.83%) Front Office
20 15 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 731 (37.88%) Developer
2 461 (23.89%) Senior
3 347 (17.98%) Software Engineer
4 290 (15.03%) Lead
5 261 (13.52%) Architect
6 206 (10.67%) .NET Developer
7 167 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 151 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 144 (7.46%) Java Developer
10 133 (6.89%) Java Engineer
11 113 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 109 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 103 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
14 96 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.25%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
17 69 (3.58%) Lead Developer
18 58 (3.01%) Lead Software Engineer
19 55 (2.85%) Technical Leader
20 53 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 527 (27.31%) .NET
2 422 (21.87%) React
3 415 (21.50%) Node.js
4 313 (16.22%) Spring
5 293 (15.18%) Spring Boot
6 279 (14.46%) RESTful
7 251 (13.01%) REST
8 234 (12.12%) Kafka
9 231 (11.97%) ASP.NET
10 213 (11.04%) .NET Core
11 205 (10.62%) AngularJS
12 203 (10.52%) Vue
13 192 (9.95%) ASP.NET Core
14 108 (5.60%) ASP.NET Web API
14 108 (5.60%) Blazor
15 97 (5.03%) .NET Framework
16 92 (4.77%) HTML
17 86 (4.46%) CSS
18 78 (4.04%) gRPC
19 72 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 573 (29.69%) Cloud Native
2 335 (17.36%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
7 55 (2.85%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.33%) Over-the-Top Content
10 41 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.61%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.40%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 23 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 17 (0.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 122 (6.32%) Linux
2 45 (2.33%) Windows
3 21 (1.09%) Unix
4 18 (0.93%) CentOS
4 18 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
6 4 (0.21%) Debian
6 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.052%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,005 (52.07%) CI/CD
2 914 (47.36%) Agile
3 685 (35.49%) DevOps
4 683 (35.39%) Software Engineering
5 556 (28.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 446 (23.11%) Mentoring
7 422 (21.87%) Containerisation
8 399 (20.67%) Event-Driven
9 394 (20.41%) AI
10 392 (20.31%) Test Automation
11 382 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 364 (18.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 352 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
14 274 (14.20%) Scrum
15 252 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
16 248 (12.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 236 (12.23%) TDD
18 215 (11.14%) Clean Code
19 213 (11.04%) Coaching
20 199 (10.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 622 (32.23%) Java
2 535 (27.72%) C#
3 487 (25.23%) SQL
4 461 (23.89%) Python
5 437 (22.64%) JavaScript
6 359 (18.60%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.17%) Go
8 53 (2.75%) Scala
9 49 (2.54%) Ruby
10 45 (2.33%) C++
11 42 (2.18%) PHP
12 39 (2.02%) Bash
13 26 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.30%) Bicep
14 25 (1.30%) Rust
15 23 (1.19%) C
16 15 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.73%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.62%) Groovy
19 11 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 246 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 176 (9.12%) Degree
3 168 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 59 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (1.09%) CISSP
9 20 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.47%) MBA
12 9 (0.47%) PhD
13 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.31%) CISM
15 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.26%) GIAC
15 5 (0.26%) ISACA
15 5 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (9.79%) QA
2 68 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.07%) GDPR
4 39 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.50%) WCAG
6 23 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 22 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.04%) NIST
9 16 (0.83%) NCSC
10 15 (0.78%) GRC
11 10 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.31%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 556 (28.81%) Docker
2 26 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) NDS
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 587 (30.41%) Kubernetes
2 349 (18.08%) Terraform
3 112 (5.80%) Ansible
4 100 (5.18%) Grafana
5 59 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.24%) Argo
7 18 (0.93%) Puppet
8 17 (0.88%) Kibana
9 13 (0.67%) Cilium
10 12 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
14 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 2 (0.10%) Nagios
14 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.10%) Rancher
15 1 (0.052%) Istio
15 1 (0.052%) logstash
Vendors
1 308 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.40%) Google
3 61 (3.16%) Oracle
4 45 (2.33%) Typelevel
5 36 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.50%) Splunk
7 24 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 22 (1.14%) IBM
9 20 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.88%) Databricks
11 13 (0.67%) Adobe
11 13 (0.67%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.62%) OneLogin
12 12 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.62%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.52%) Okta
13 10 (0.52%) SAP
13 10 (0.52%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.47%) ForgeRock
15 7 (0.36%) HubSpot